I try to keep mine clean, but that puts my bench to shame. I'm a packrat, though, I never throw anything away. I even use the primer trays as coasters. LOL.I guess I'm OCD about my workspace. Lol
I try to keep mine clean, but that puts my bench to shame. I'm a packrat, though, I never throw anything away. I even use the primer trays as coasters. LOL.I guess I'm OCD about my workspace. Lol
The only gun chambered in this round (to my knowledge) is the Desert Eagle. They sell the barrels so you can convert a Mk XIX to 429. It uses the same bolt as either 44 or 50, and uses the 50 mags. I have not bought a barrel yet, it is on my list. I had birthday pricing at Midway so I went ahead and got the dies for it. No one sells brass to reloaders yet, Starline makes the brass for the factory ammo but they must have some type of agreement with Magnum Research since they won't sell it (for now) to reloaders. The 50 brass necks down easily enough, though, so I thought I would make a couple of dummy rounds just to play around with it.I’ve been thinking about that round. What are your thoughts about it & how do you like it? Do they sell upper kits like they do for other calibers?
I see you’ve incorporated TPS/RLM at home as wellI guess I'm OCD about my workspace. Lol
The only gun chambered in this round (to my knowledge) is the Desert Eagle. They sell the barrels so you can convert a Mk XIX to 429. It uses the same bolt as either 44 or 50, and uses the 50 mags. I have not bought a barrel yet, it is on my list. I had birthday pricing at Midway so I went ahead and got the dies for it. No one sells brass to reloaders yet, Starline makes the brass for the factory ammo but they must have some type of agreement with Magnum Research since they won't sell it (for now) to reloaders. The 50 brass necks down easily enough, though, so I thought I would make a couple of dummy rounds just to play around with it.
My attraction to it is that I can get the muzzle energy of the 50, but the cost of the 44mag bullets (about $0.14 each for Zero 240 JSP) will make it a cheaper round to shoot. And 1600 fps with a 240gn bullet is nothing to sneeze at!
I used WSF for .40 with good results when I used to own a trans-am and had a mullet [emoji38]I loaded 400 .40 S&W until I ran out of WST. Headed down to Fuquay G&G.... they have no WST.
I guess I’ll come up with a new load using something else. I’m not going to worry about chasing down powder.
Lots of powders work well in 40. FWIW, two of my favorites are Power Pistol and BE86. Two that are more readily available and more likely to be stocked at local stores would be HP38/W231.I loaded 400 .40 S&W until I ran out of WST. Headed down to Fuquay G&G.... they have no WST.
I guess I’ll come up with a new load using something else. I’m not going to worry about chasing down powder.
@KnotRight, what is the purpose of annealing brass for reloading?
I’ve only ever reloaded pistol brass.
I know I can Google it, but where’s the fun in that?
@KnotRight, what is the purpose of annealing brass for reloading?
I’ve only ever reloaded pistol brass.
I know I can Google it, but where’s the fun in that?
Like every GM product the fuel pump died and then electrical gremlins claimed itI can see losing the mullet (after some time), but what happened to the T/A?
As I anneal each case, I drop into a bucket of water. I just air dry when I am done.Question for those who saltwater anneal. How do you dry your cases?
So my test of 25rd of the FMJ FN was perfect. 3.2gr titegroup got me avg 1008fps and they shot great in both my 1.0 & 2.0 M&P’s. I sold & traded all of my RMR FMJ’s for more American Reloading FMJ FN, so I’ll do and accuracy test next before finalizing my load and cranking out 500+ on the SDB.It’s been a year since I last loaded!
Dusted off (literally) my presses, cleaned up my bench area, and began trouble shooting my 9mm 147gr RMR FMJ RN issue. It’s been discussed here and elsewhere but their in-house 147’s don’t work for all guns, specifically gen5 Glocks, CZ handguns (excl Scorpions), and M&P 2.0’s.
I found that I needed to seat these 147 FMJ RN at 1.10” to get them to fit my EGW gauge. This gauge is tighter than my 2.0 FS barrel but just barely.
I decided to try out some of the 147 FMJ FN pulls that I have from American Reloading and these seem like they’ll be the ticket. The profile of this bullet seems to work much better while maintaining a normal OAL. Loaded up 25 of these with 3.2gr titegroup vs my normal 3.4gr and will chrono and function test them tomorrow.
I may be trading all of my RMR’s, we’ll see.
It seems 300 BLK try to be difficult on my Hornady LnL too. Maybe because they are so top heavy. Any way to extend your shoot up on the front side?Anyone have a hack for loading 300BLK on a Dillon 550? 1/2 of the rounds fall off to the sides instead of down the chute.
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The piece that pushes the to round out kicks the bottom out and they topple over. They fall in all directions.It seems 300 BLK try to be difficult on my Hornady LnL too. Maybe because they are so top heavy. Any way to extend your shoot up on the front side?
I had the same happen on my Dillon with 9mm. I gave them a call & the 1st question was “are you using virgin brass?” Yes I was, “tumble the brass on used media, the carbon acts as a lubricant.” and it does. I never had that issue with any other caliber in 29 years.While loading 45ACP on the Dillon SDB I noticed the powder funnel expander die was sticky and upon closer inspection found vertical scratches / scoring.
Pulled it out and chucked it up in the lathe. Hit it with some 400 then 800 grit paper at 1400 RPM, after a final polish it looks new again. I should probably do the same to the funnels in my 9mm & 10mm SDB's!
Wet tumbling the brass with Dawn will cause that as well. When I started using Wash-n-Wax, the problem mostly went away.I had the same happen on my Dillon with 9mm. I gave them a call & the 1st question was “are you using virgin brass?” Yes I was, “tumble the brass on used media, the carbon acts as a lubricant.” and it does. I never had that issue with any other caliber in 29 years.
The symptoms I saw were 1) case was difficult to pull from the expander and 2) the expander (powder funnel on Dillon) had vertical streaks of brass. On the Dillon, the only caliber I had a real problem with was 45acp. I also had a similar problem with virgin 44mag brass. Dry tumbling did not help, I had to lube them.Pink_Vapor & Toprudder - you guys are on to something since lately I've been cleaning cases using a wet tumbler or ultrasonic the cases are just too clean. In the past I would often lube the cases because they had been shot in an open bolt subgun and were difficult to resize. They've been pulled out of the shell plate of my Dillon before, lubing cases solved that problem but I have not been lubing them as of late.